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"ref": "2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 71",
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"ref": "1992, Judy Salpeter, Kids and Computers: A Parent's Handbook, page 213",
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"ref": "2010, Helene Hovanec, Ultimate Puzzle Challenge: Mind Mashers, page 3",
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"word": "ruudukoitu"
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{
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{
"code": "it",
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{
"code": "it",
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{
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{
"code": "sv",
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"word": "härs och tvärs"
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{
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "crossing one another",
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},
{
"code": "fi",
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},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "crossing one another",
"word": "ympäri ämpäri"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "crossing one another",
"word": "kreuz und quer"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "crossing one another",
"word": "keresztbe-kasul"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "crossing one another",
"word": "ide-oda"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "crossing one another",
"word": "összevissza"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "crossing one another",
"word": "keresztbe"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "crossing one another",
"word": "incrociarsi"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "crossing one another",
"word": "intersecarsi"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "krest-nákrest",
"sense": "crossing one another",
"word": "крест-на́крест"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "crossing one another",
"word": "härs och tvärs"
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{
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "crossing one another",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.